List of Figures
Chapter 1. Why Python?
Figure 1.1. Python.org’s download page
Figure 1.2. Are you sure you want to run this strange program from the internet? Yes!
Figure 1.3. Install Python for all users.
Figure 1.4. Choose Python’s location.
Figure 1.5. Choose which bits of Python you want.
Figure 1.7. Hooray! Python’s installed!
Figure 1.8. Here’s where Notepad lives.
Figure 1.9. The test program for Python
Figure 1.10. Save your test program to the desktop.
Figure 1.11. Run your script by double-clicking it.
Figure 1.12. Where the Windows command line lives
Figure 1.13. Windows doesn’t know where Python is!
Figure 1.14. Looking in your computer’s properties
Figure 1.15. Editing your system properties
Figure 1.16. Opening the PATH variable
Figure 1.17. Adding Python to your PATH variable
Figure 1.18. Success! Now Windows knows where Python is.
Figure 1.19. The permissions window for hello_world.py
Figure 1.20. Choosing what to do with your program
Figure 1.21. Your test program running in a terminal window under Ubuntu Linux
Figure 1.22. Setting the command in a launcher
Figure 1.23. Setting the new Python path properly
Chapter 2. Hunt the Wumpus
Figure 2.1. This isn’t a very fun game.
Chapter 3. Interacting with the world
Figure 3.1. The four possibilities for differences between files
Figure 3.2. A test directory for the difference engine
Figure 3.3. test2, an almost identical copy of the first test directory
Chapter 4. Getting organized
Chapter 5. Business-oriented programming
Figure 5.1. Python as a glue language, helping other programs “talk” to each other
Figure 5.2. Examining elements using Firebug
Figure 5.3. Using Firebug with highlighting
Figure 5.4. The structure of a HTML email
Figure 5.5. A diagram of a stack trace
Figure 5.6. The HTML changes if there’s no movement in the stock.
Chapter 6. Classes and object-oriented programming
Figure 6.1. Monsters are like the player, except with horns and a frowny face.
Figure 6.2. A basic sketch of your game
Figure 6.3. Some of the inheritance and composition in your game
Chapter 7. Sufficiently advanced technology...
Figure 7.1. A diamond inheritance structure
Figure 7.2. The iterator protocol: once you run through three iterations, it stops.
Chapter 8. Django!
Figure 8.1. Setting system paths for Django
Figure 8.2. Django’s starting screen
Figure 8.4. Where’s my template?
Figure 8.5. Logging into Django’s admin system
Figure 8.6. Editing a todo in the Django admin interface
Chapter 9. Gaming with Pyglet
Figure 9.7. The ship’s angle can have x and y parts.
Figure 9.8. Now you can drive your spaceship around. Brrm! Brrm!
Figure 9.9. Gravity applies a force to your ship.
Figure 9.10. Two different angles, same x position and distance
Figure 9.11. Your ship in orbit around the planet
Figure 9.12. The planet’s and ship’s collision circles
Figure 9.13. Your ship firing—ready to take on the alien armada
Chapter 10. Twisted networking
Figure 10.1. Installing Twisted on Windows
Figure 10.2. A Factory creating protocols
Figure 10.3. Your chat server is running.
Figure 10.4. Bad monster! No beating on the player!
Figure 10.5. The Twisted class structure
Chapter 11. Django revisited!
Figure 11.1. Adding a user through Django’s admin screen
Figure 11.2. Your database is broken!